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A MAN'S wrist was broken in an incident in which he says he was attacked by a group of travellers.

Michael Aylward had an operation to put two pins in his wrist following what he claims was an unprovoked attack out-side the Wing Half pub in Stanney.

The 29-year-old says he was attacked while enjoying a quiet drink with a friend, who already had a broken collarbone, at 11.30pm on Friday, August 19.

Mr Aylward said: 'A traveller came over and asked my friend for a light. He then pocketed my friend's lighter and told him: 'I'll break your other ******* arm in a minute'.

'The man was with three other travellers. He was swearing, hurling abuse at us. One of the men was holding him back. Another came over to apologise.

'Suddenly, the original aggressor came back and punched me. He was trying to punch me in the face - even though I'd not said a single word up to this point - but I ducked and he caught the top of my head.

'I grabbed hold of him and wrestled with him in self-de-fence. Suddenly he started punching me hard in the head.

'We fell over and the others fell on top of us. And, as I went down on to the floor, my wrist snapped.'

Mr Aylward cannot remember what happened next, but thinks adrenalin was coursing through him because he managed to throw the attackers off him and run away to safety. He says the men chased him but he gave them the slip.

One of the men had blond hair and one had black hair.

Mr Aylward, who works at the borough council's recycling programme, said: 'I went to the Countess of Chester Hospital and had an operation on my wrist, and two pins put in it.

'I've also got cuts to both arms, lumps and bruises to my head and on the back of my legs.

'I can't go back to work for at least a month and may have to have physiotherapy. I can't believe what happened.

'I have some depression, and feel angry and vulnerable because, in my condition, I can't do anything to protect myself in the near future.'

DC Martin Johnson of Ellesmere Port & Neston CID said: 'There would have been a lot of people in the pub at that time.